It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLIA son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
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For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
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Benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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